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26th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies
Bonn, Germany | 7-18 May 2007
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Workshops Pick Up Pace in Bonn
On Friday, contact groups and informal consultations were held on a variety of issues, including: the Adaptation Fund; budget for 2008-2009; deforestation; Decision 1/CP.10 (Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures); IPCC's 2006 Guidelines on national greenhouse gas inventories; research and systematic observation; small-scale afforestation and reforestation under the CDM; and technology transfer. Two workshops were also held: one on the Russian proposal, the other on climate change mitigation, focused on urban planning and development.
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Friday, 11 May
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Workshop on the Russian Proposal
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Michael Zammit Cutajar, Malta, facilitated the workshop on the Russian proposal.
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Sergey Tulinov, Russian Federation, explaining the proposal aims to make it more attractive for non-Annex I parties to "contribute to the objective of the Convention."
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Alf Wills, South Africa, questioned whether the time was ripe for a separate Protocol on voluntary commitments.
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Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Japan, emphasized the importance of involving major emitters.
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer listened intently to an intervention.
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Nicole Wilke, Germany for the EU, stressed low-cost mitigation opportunties in the IPCC WGIII findings
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Adrian Macey, New Zealand, welcomed the opportunity to discuss the proposal.
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Workshop on Mitigation
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The in-session workshop on scientific, technical and socioeconomic aspects of mitigation and urban planning and development, including transportation, featured a variey of speakers presenting case studies, followed by questions and answers.
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SBSTA Chair Kishan Kumarsingh facilitated the workshop.
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Guenter Karl, UN Habitat, presented an overview of climate change mitigation through urban planning and development.
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Dominique Drapier, France, presented on the experience of the Lille area in waste management and inland waterway transport.
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Gilles Paque, European Commission, presented on the Commission's proposal for a revised strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
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Kebin He, China, discussed issues and options for high efficiency, low carbon urbanization in China.
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Rudolf Petersen, Germany, presented a case study of a German-Malaysian project for sustainable urban traffic systems in Kuala Lumpur.
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SBI Contact Group on Decision 1/CP.10
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Around the Subsidiary Bodies
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G-77/China delegates held their morning coordination.
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Mikhail Gitarskiy, Russian Federation, chatted with another delegate in the morning.
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Before the workshop on the Russian proposal, Executive Secretary de Boer conferred with Alexander Metalnikov, Russian Federation.
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Michael Zammit Cutajar chatted with another participant after the day's sessions.
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Related Links
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
SB26 Information and Documents
SB26 Side Events Schedule
SB26 Side Events Overview
SB26 Exhibits List
Kyoto Protocol information
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
UNEP Ozone Secretariat
Related IISDRS Coverage
Linkages Climate and Atmosphere page
IPCC Working Group 3 and IPCC-26, 30 April-4 May 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.
UNFCCC Asian Regional Workshop on Adaptation, 11-13 April 2007, Beijing, China.
IPCC Working Group 2, 2-5 April 2007, Brussels, Belgium.
CTI Joint Seminar on Technology Transfer in Asia, New Delhi, 7-8 March 2007, New Delhi, India.
Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change, 24-28 February 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
IPCC Working Group 1, 29 January-1 February 2007, Paris, France.
UNFCC COP-12, 6-17 November 2006, Nairobi, Kenya.
Montréal Protocol MOP-18, October 2006, New Delhi, India.
UNFCCC African Regional Workshop on Adaptation, 21-23 September 2006, Accra, Ghana.
First International Conference on the CDM, 19-21 September 2006, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
26th Montréal Protocol Open-Ended Working Group, 3-6 July 2006, Montréal, Canada.
UNFCCC SB-24, 15-26 May 2006, Bonn, Germany.
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